With the development of the Internet and high technology, TV as one of the main entertainment methods of the family is becoming more and more diverse. Little Lime Green is of course not a TV category or style, but a box for TV. From cable TV set-top boxes to network set-top boxes, smart boxes, to smart TVs that are now popular but controversial, what is the difference between them? How to buy as a consumer?
Let’s talk about the more traditional limited TV set-top box:
What is a cable set-top box?
The so-called cable set-top box refers to the set-top box for transmitting cable TV signals. The user connects to the cable TV through the set-top box, mainly based on the live content, and currently broadcasts content, but most of the fees are required.
What is a smart TV box?
The smart box can be said to be an iterative version of the limited TV set-top box. It is better configured, richer in content, and can be used wirelessly, connected via WIFI.
The smart box has built-in video on demand, games, shopping, music, live broadcasts and other rich content, and the vendors have different applications, more importantly, it is like a large mobile storage device, not only can open content on demand directly like a USB flash drive, but also Enrich content and application functionality by installing a variety of TV applications.
But smart boxes need to have a network. Without a network, there is no difference between them and ordinary boxes. Although they are all TV boxes, the difference between cable set-top boxes and smart boxes is still very large:
â— The content of the smart box is wide, and the content of the cable set-top box is relatively fixed and the scalability is poor.
â— The smart TV box can not only watch live TV, but also order various content, and even add program sources to watch overseas channels.
â— Cable TV set-top boxes play content by receiving cable TV signals. Smart TV boxes transmit data by connecting network signals, enabling wireless connection.
â— Cable TV set-top boxes need to pay for the machine fee, and also pay the content service fee every year; the smart TV box can pay for the box, there are a lot of free content, of course, there are also members paying, but the free content is very rich, and now Every household has almost a network, and it is not too reasonable for this part of the network to be included in the cost of the smart TV box.
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